Vocabulary
The sequence of events where a cell grows, prepares to divide and then when ready divides to form two daughter cells.
What is the cell cycle?
The four functions of cell division.
What are:
1. Growth
2. Replacement of older cells
3. Make new cells
4. Repair damage
In the G1 phase of interphase this is the primary outcome.
What is growth?
The four main stages of the mitosis phase of the cell cycle.
What are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
The two daughter cells formed in cytokinesis are:
What is identical?
Replication
What is the process of making an exact copy of a cell's DNA?
The principle of cell theory related to the cell cycle.
What is living cells come from existing cells?
The S phase, or synthesis phase, is where this happens during interphase.
What is replication of DNA?
Chromosomes line up along the equator of the cell in this stage.
What is metaphase?
The stage of mitosis where the nuclear membranes return and two nuclei are formed around each set of genetic material.
What is telophase?
The threadlike structures that contain two identical copies of DNA.
What are chromosomes?
The three stages of the cell cycle.
What are interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis?
During interphase, DNA has replicated and appears as loosely coiled, spaghetti like, strands called:
What are chromatin?
What is 8?
During cytokinesis a cleavage furrow appears in the cell membrane of this type of cell.
What are animal cells?
These structures in animal cells that help organize cell division.
What are centrioles?
These are the end result of one round of the cell cycle.
What are two daughter cells?
The period of growth that occurs between cell divisions?
What is anaphase?
This structure forms between the two new cells of plant cells while the cell membranes and cell walls are created/formed.
What is a cell plate?
In anaphase these structures connect each sister chromatid to the centriole and pull each to chromatid to each side of the cell.
What are spindle fibers?
The longest phase of the cell cycle.
What is interphase?
In interphase the cell grows larger, replicates its DNA, and produces these necessary cell structures.
What are organelles?
During this first stage of mitosis DNA condenses and becomes visible while the nuclear membrane begins to dissappear.
What is prophase?
Once the two new nuclei are formed the chromosomes begin to unravel and return to this state.
What is chromatin?